Michelle

i love women unraveling and making chaotic decisions. super engaging, quick read from the start. the description of this as yellowface & bunny having a baby grabbed my interest, and was totally right if you also add guillotine to that mix. i wanted more exploration around certain themes like how julie's grief was impacting her decision making. what happens with the court case? and the aunt? also, the mouse thing was too much for me!

i was hooked by the brief description: sapphic, puerto rican spin on legally blonde. this read more like YA than an adult novel and i wish i had known that before i started reading it. definitely a lighthearted, quick read! 

stumbled on this at a good time! good reminder that the journey includes failures and rejections but really they are just taking you where you need to be. 

looking forward to more books in this, wish the author had dug deeper into the foster care to prison pipeline & felt at times the author's bias was coloring the content. 

stella is a self-identified late bloomer. when she finally meets a man who makes sparks fly for her - at a sex club - he turns out to own an ai company... the same company her boss wants writers to use at her digital media job. i had high hopes for this after loving the author's debut ya novel last year, but unfortunately this one wasn't for me. if there's going to be an anti-ai plot, i need it to be a lot more ANTI AI. 2.75/5 ⭐️